Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification productivity solutions, today announced availability of updates to its NVMe VIP supporting NVMe 1.3 and support for new NVMe-Management Interface (NVMe-MI) over PCIe 4.0 or SMBus 3.0.

The NVMe VIP now supports the NVMe 1.3 standard including enhancements to models, protocol checking, and compliance testsuites.

Discover devices that are present and learn capabilities of each device

Store data about the host environment enabling a Management Controller to query the data later

Health and temperature monitoring

Multiple Command Slots to prevent a long latency command from blocking monitoring operations

Processor and operating system agnostic

A standard format for VPD and defined mechanisms to read/write VPD contents

Preserves data at rest security

“Avery continues to demonstrate leadership in NVMe and PCIe VIP with support for the latest NVMe features,” said Chris Browy, vice president of sales/marketing at Avery. “Our customers can develop new products more confidently and quickly knowing a comprehensive SystemVerilog/UVM NVMe verification environment is available for the latest in NVMe developments targeting enterprise, client, and cloud.”